Within the context of their upcoming project ‘Now is Not the Time to Be Gentle’, MakeAmplify will offer perspectives from their experience of working in hybrid contexts with diverse communities and explore provocations for the future of the sector.
Imagine experiencing dance from the comfort of your front garden or bedroom window. Dancers on your street; floating on a platform in an ocean that is projection mapped on the houses opposite. You lift your phone and the entire world under the surface is revealed; shimmering fish, a huge whale, and tiny bioluminescent creatures glow and swirl in the dark, accompanied by a sweeping 3D score. You are fully immersed in an underwater world of sound, movement, and light - and you haven’t even left your home.
MakeAmplify invite participants, artists, venues, makers and communities to share and discuss how during a time of crisis for our climate we create a sustainable hybrid of digital, immersive tech and live delivery/performance and how we as artists and deliverers can use this kind of technology. How can we keep our integrity and make sure new technology is sustainable and inclusive?
This event is free of charge to People Dancing Members and £5.00 for non-members.
Bookings for this event are now closed
Booking deadline: Tuesday 9 November 2021.
About Jennifer Irons, Zach Walker and Chris Hunt
Jennifer Irons
Jennifer is an award-winning choreographer, performer and director working internationally across theatre, commercial and socially engaged projects. She has been getting people together to dance since she was five years old.
Jennifer is Mass Movement Director for Akram Khan Company, Associate Choreographer with Complicité and was Associate Artist with Candoco Dance Company from 2006 - 2016. Jennifer is founder and director of ironINC in Africa; arts for cultural exchange program working with local partners across Africa & Middle East to co-create and deliver arts programs for professional and social development. Yukon Ho!, her one-woman guide to surviving the arctic is scheduled to tour the UK Spring 2022. www.jenniferirons.co.uk
Zach Walker
Zach is a multi-disciplinary artist commissioned by galleries, museums, festivals and commercial events including Google Chromecast Launch in Las Vegas and Matte BLACK in New York. He was Visual Director for Decibel International Festival in Seattle (2009-2014). There, both his own visuals and make AMPLIFY’s work featured with artists such as Moby, DJ Shadow, and Flying Lotus.
In the UK he works with the Light Surgeons, Project Instrumental Chamber Orchestra and long-time collaborators UK Beatbox Champion Reeps One and producer Linden Jay. Zach was founder and co-director of the Uplift Project working with young people in the criminal justice system to develop literacy and filmmaking skills. www.zachwalker.co.uk
Chris Hunt
Chris is a creative technologist, director of Controlled Frenzy and builder of rather cool things. He works across a wide spectrum of technologies to build projects in Virtual, Augmented and Mixed Realities. Examples include Sensing the Unseen at the National Gallery and The Common Line virtual linear forest. www.controlledfrenzy.co.uk